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our next guest is justin ruben, the executive director of moveon.org. next, we will turn our attention to china. the president goes to thailand and what the u.s.-china relations will look like. we are back in a moment. >> for the last nearly half century, the discussion of the assassination has been dominated by two schools of thought, or two faiths. i will briefly describe each of them and how they approach the evidence in the case. there is the church of the lone assassin that insists of walt -- oswald and ruby murdered john f. kennedy for their own reasons. on the other side, we have the church of the grand conspiracy. they are vague about what they think it happened and who is responsible. but they are absolutely convinced there was a large conspiracy, usually involving figures in the u.s. government and a massive cover-up. s> this weekend on c-span 3' american history tv, 30 years later the questions remain. what happened in dallas? the assassination of john f. kennedy today at 7:30 p.m. eastern and pacific. >> truman had two big puzzles in his lif
our next guest is justin ruben, the executive director of moveon.org. next, we will turn our attention to china. the president goes to thailand and what the u.s.-china relations will look like. we are back in a moment. >> for the last nearly half century, the discussion of the assassination has been dominated by two schools of thought, or two faiths. i will briefly describe each of them and how they approach the evidence in the case. there is the church of the lone assassin that insists...
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this is about 25 minutes. >> my name is justin smith. i'm the president of thrack media company. i'm delighted to welcome you to the washington ideas forum convened as many of you know, the atlantic has been in the businessor journalism and ideas for a very long time, since 1857 to be exact, but it wasn't until nine years ago that we got serious about creating the most interesting and ambitious live forums on politics, business, science and technology and the arts. thanks to the vision of the accomplished author, walter isaacson who approached the owner of the atlantic, david bradley about partnering to create a new event called the aspen ideas festival. in less than a decade, the festival chrks takes place every summer in the beautiful aspen campus in colorado has become a leader in global events arena. due to to its success, we decided four years to go take elements of that great show on the road and with the partnership of jim duff and the museum, the washington ideas forum was born. over the next two days you'll hear some of the world's greatest journalists interviewed, discu
this is about 25 minutes. >> my name is justin smith. i'm the president of thrack media company. i'm delighted to welcome you to the washington ideas forum convened as many of you know, the atlantic has been in the businessor journalism and ideas for a very long time, since 1857 to be exact, but it wasn't until nine years ago that we got serious about creating the most interesting and ambitious live forums on politics, business, science and technology and the arts. thanks to the vision of...
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as didn't raise their hand and said, she's justin and john marshall is very much admired -- chief justice marshall was very much admired. they said, it's a queue until 1787 to get your constitution. -- it took you until 1787 to get your constitution. we have been standing in your constitutional history since the fourth grade. if i did that class at american university i would've said, that is a great class. i told the same story that night in front of the presence of the university. -- president of the university. if you wanted to be a doctor or a scientist or an architect or a lawyer, you could not do it. he went into the schools for 50 years. we had the best teachers in the world. in the united states, i get visits often from high school groups friends of our family will bring their teenagers. i am often quite impressed with their grasp of american history. but there are some real problems generally. we were in a place this summer were people had gone together grants for exceptional high school students to go to europe. they come back and give a report. this one student had gone to ausc
as didn't raise their hand and said, she's justin and john marshall is very much admired -- chief justice marshall was very much admired. they said, it's a queue until 1787 to get your constitution. -- it took you until 1787 to get your constitution. we have been standing in your constitutional history since the fourth grade. if i did that class at american university i would've said, that is a great class. i told the same story that night in front of the presence of the university. --...
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ave you recognized justin's anti-authorization act? i wonder if we should apply pressure -- excuse me, i am a little nervous. i was wondering if you thought about maybe applying pressure to everyone who works out in government, may be an anti- subsidy law, anti- lying law. and how about drug testing? every 24 hours. that includes coffee and sugar and everything. host: i think that would be a little extreme. justin is a very good member of congress, very determined to follow the constitution. i am sure he is on the right track. drug testing, i think we're overdoing this. we should never have general drug-testing. i think there has to be reasonable cause and justification. it can be handled in the private sector rather easily. the businessman has a right, if he is running an airline, to test the people flying his airplanes. for the government to say that we are going to drug test everybody, and even federal officials, if they do not have a vital function, i do not believe in generalized drug testing for everyone that works for the federa
ave you recognized justin's anti-authorization act? i wonder if we should apply pressure -- excuse me, i am a little nervous. i was wondering if you thought about maybe applying pressure to everyone who works out in government, may be an anti- subsidy law, anti- lying law. and how about drug testing? every 24 hours. that includes coffee and sugar and everything. host: i think that would be a little extreme. justin is a very good member of congress, very determined to follow the constitution. i...
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when you see, i forget, i watched it, jimmy, you telle, was a documentary, i guess justin bieber was discovered on youtube. >> right. >> i thought it was pretty extraordinary. i saw a young agent who saw this kid on youtube d went and convinced his mother to sign him. i think that's fantastic. when whether he -- when we were all growing up in the business, nothing like that ever existed. >> but those are the benefits that the artist community is receiving. on the other hand you have giant corporations, who we're all as self-serveing a as the next guy, i guess, but what a company like youtube does, they have user generated content, which is they take the song, put up a lyric video and they hide behind safe harboor -- harpor lies, and a lot of piracy, those musicians you talk about like justin bieber are selling 1/10th of the records they do because after the record comes out, it goes up on youtube or blogs and gets listened to for free. the music industry hads a lot of leverage the while we were hit -- hit with piracy, we were also hit with the degradation of our music. we spent thous
when you see, i forget, i watched it, jimmy, you telle, was a documentary, i guess justin bieber was discovered on youtube. >> right. >> i thought it was pretty extraordinary. i saw a young agent who saw this kid on youtube d went and convinced his mother to sign him. i think that's fantastic. when whether he -- when we were all growing up in the business, nothing like that ever existed. >> but those are the benefits that the artist community is receiving. on the other hand...
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host: justin is the next caller from omaha, nebraska. caller: i do not really have a solution to speed of the voting process. i can only speak to how it works here for me personally. i live in douglas county. it borders the river. personally, i have never had any problems. i went up to where i went to grade school. the population here is not like it is in places like ohio. i had a theory that some of this is just -- like i said, i have never had a problem voting. what i do want to address is, both of these -- to both of these parties have spent billions of dollars for an elected position that only pays them $500,000 annually. like i said, i have not seen a problem with the voting process. right across the river in iowa, the early vote a lot. a friend of mine early votes every election. i have never had a problem voting absentee when i was in the service. i have never had trouble voting here in my home town. from a personal point of view, i do not have a problem with the polling process. i have an issue that the republican party seems fra
host: justin is the next caller from omaha, nebraska. caller: i do not really have a solution to speed of the voting process. i can only speak to how it works here for me personally. i live in douglas county. it borders the river. personally, i have never had any problems. i went up to where i went to grade school. the population here is not like it is in places like ohio. i had a theory that some of this is just -- like i said, i have never had a problem voting. what i do want to address is,...
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tomorrow will be joined by justin gutierrez, commerc rueben. damien examines the impact of new leadership in china and previews the president's trip to china. "washington journal" live a 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> he is on the road in iowa were marco rubio is speaking at a fund-raiser for terry branstad. why is he at that event? >> there are saying he is here because he was invited. it is considering whether he might be running for president. this is about just as much of building was in any sort of organization. matt romney consider him for the vice presidency. now he is looking ahead to 2016. this is a republican party that does not have a standard there. he certainly will be able to shape the direction of the party. coming to i would this early, we laid down to what ambition who has for a natural role. >> desi have a relationship with the governor of iowa lead? -- does he have a relationship with the government of i would? >> he really is his own franchise. he is a larger-than-life figure, very colorful. everyone who has some sort of pr
tomorrow will be joined by justin gutierrez, commerc rueben. damien examines the impact of new leadership in china and previews the president's trip to china. "washington journal" live a 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> he is on the road in iowa were marco rubio is speaking at a fund-raiser for terry branstad. why is he at that event? >> there are saying he is here because he was invited. it is considering whether he might be running for president. this is about just as...
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as of yesterday, there were 700,000 justin los angeles county that had not been counted. that will not change the outcome -- just in los angeles county that had not been counted. host: 125 million folks voted in this election. the number is expected to pick up? guest: whether it will surpass the votes from 2008 or not, we do not know yet. it depends how many uncounted ballots there are out there. no one has a perfect handle on that, because some of the states have a pretty good sense of how many votes they still have to go. some of the states do not know how many are still out there. from the past experience of 2008, 2004, they're probably in the neighborhood of 10 million yet to go. we will top 130. host: independent line. caller: a think the electoral college system is a brilliant. it defends the two party system . going back to minorities, and live in northern virginia. it is very diverse. maybe because i am part of the younger generation, but i do not understand why and minorities go to polls, they see themselves as minorities instead of just americans. everyone in th
as of yesterday, there were 700,000 justin los angeles county that had not been counted. that will not change the outcome -- just in los angeles county that had not been counted. host: 125 million folks voted in this election. the number is expected to pick up? guest: whether it will surpass the votes from 2008 or not, we do not know yet. it depends how many uncounted ballots there are out there. no one has a perfect handle on that, because some of the states have a pretty good sense of how...